Use of Immersive Virtual Environments As A Collaborative Tool For The Study of Architectural Building Components Subjected to Earthquake Excitations

使用沉浸式虚拟环境作为研究遭受地震激励的建筑构件的协作工具

• 批准号: 9908719
• 负责人: Mehdi Setareh
• 金额: $ 13.69万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-10-01 至 2003-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9908719&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Use; Immersive; Virtual; Environments; Collaborative

The main objectives of this research are to:Investigate different methods of implementing and linking a visualization application to existing computer software for the analysis of structures. Study the behavior of the architectural components and their interaction with the structural elements of buildings during earthquakes.This project focuses on the studies resulting in the development of a virtual environment computer software that can help provide better understanding in the area of the design of architectural components specially partitions and suspended ceiling systems. This project consists of two phases. During the first phase computer software (VIRTUAL-SAP) will be created to develop "Smart Building Models". This is a virtual reality model of a building which is linked through intermediary software to a structural analysis program. PC-SAP4 (Structural Analysis Program) originally developed at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of California, Berkeley, has been tested and applied to various problems during the past 25 years. This project will use PC-SAP4 for the structural analysis of building structures. The CAVE (Cave Automated Virtual Environmental) will be used for the generation of the building structural model. The system will allow the user to "immerse" him/herself in a virtual world that has all the tools required to build a complete structural model, including loading, suitable for analysis and design. As an example of the application of the developed computer program the second phase of the project involves the use of the software developed in the first phase (VIRTUAL-SAP) to study the behavior of different architectural components under simulated seismic loading and provide an understanding of the behavior of these elements for the architects and contractors. The interaction of these elements with the structure and with each other subjected to low and moderate earthquake motions will be demonstrated and studied. Different configurations of connecting elements and boundary conditions will be considered.

本研究的主要目标是：研究实现可视化应用程序并将其链接到现有计算机软件以进行结构分析的不同方法。 研究地震期间建筑构件的行为及其与建筑物结构元素的相互作用。该项目的重点是开发虚拟环境计算机软件，该软件有助于更好地理解建筑构件的设计领域特别是隔断和吊顶系统。 该项目分为两个阶段。 在第一阶段，将创建计算机软件（VIRTUAL-SAP）来开发“智能建筑模型”。 这是建筑物的虚拟现实模型，通过中间软件连接到结构分析程序。 PC-SAP4（结构分析程序）最初由加州大学伯克利分校土木工程系开发，在过去的 25 年里已经过测试并应用于各种问题。 本项目将使用PC-SAP4进行建筑结构的结构分析。 CAVE（洞穴自动化虚拟环境）将用于生成建筑结构模型。 该系统将允许用户“沉浸”在一个虚拟世界中，该世界拥有构建完整结构模型所需的所有工具，包括适合分析和设计的加载。 作为所开发的计算机程序应用的一个例子，该项目的第二阶段涉及使用第一阶段开发的软件（VIRTUAL-SAP）来研究不同建筑构件在模拟地震荷载下的行为，并提供对这些元素对于建筑师和承包商的行为。 将演示和研究这些元素与结构以及在低度和中度地震作用下彼此之间的相互作用。 将考虑连接元件和边界条件的不同配置。